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Once upon a time in the west.

Be a hero and take to the screens.

#dudehuge It's not every day that you get to hear Gears of War designer Cliff Bleszinski talk video game masturbation. Today, however, is that day. Lucky you! More »

Come witness the art of blood splatter.

Filed under: Podcasts This week's episode is short, but sweet. In just under an hour, we run the gamut from the NPDs to Halo: Reach to E3 predictions to Cirque Du Soleil. Yeah, you should listen to this one.

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Hosts: Richard Mitchell (SenseiRAM, @senseiram), Alexander Sliwinski (Sli Xander, @xandersliwinski), and Dave Hinkle (KnifefightYaDad, @davehinkle)

Music: Intro/Outro: "Electromooq" by Uma Floresta.

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It's a JRPG slumber party!

Perfect World, a China-based developer and publisher of several MMOs, revealed today it has acquired "a majority stake" in Runic Games for approximately $8.4 million. Runic is the studio that spawned from the ashes of Hellgate: London's Flagship Studios and is best-known for Torchlight, its single-player Diablo-inspired action-RPG. Previously, in April 2009, Runic had entered an agreement that made Perfect World the exclusive worldwide publisher of Torchlight.

Considering Perfect World is primarily an MMO publisher, it's fairly obvious the company gobbled up the majority stake in Runic in anticipation of the developer's Torchlight MMO, which is reportedly about two years away. With this acquisition, Perfect World has stated that it seeks to "create global titles" -- so more Hot Dance Party MMOs then?

Four new shots coming at the speed of an ace serve.

The Legend of Heroes series continues.

EA Showcase interview with Producer Alan Moore.

Here's the launch trailer for Prince of Persia: The Forgotten Sands. It's essentially a primer for anyone who has somehow missed the copious coverage of the game so far. Let's run down the bullet points, shall we?

• Platforming -- check!
• Puzzles -- got 'em!
• Combat -- yup.
• Elemental magic -- of course.
• Ancient, angry sand demon -- you'd better believe it!

For those that require something more substantial than this primer before leaping into the Prince's latest adventure, watch out for our Forgotten Sands review -- which we'll remember to post tomorrow afternoon.

To this very day, I think the must in Super Adventure Island is absolutely amazing. It sounds so damn good, and I am constantly impressed with how much was squeezed out of the SNES’ sound capabilities. The system had no shortage of great-sounding games, but this title takes things a step beyond. Game music [...]

Take an oath and click these screens.

#review Few racing games feature exploding silos that violently alter track layouts and redirect traffic onto an airstrip, requiring you to play chicken with a cargo plane apparently transporting fireballs. But Split/Second does. More »

El Segundo, Calif. - May 17, 2010 - Konami Digital Entertainment, Inc. today announced the availability of its first ever Nintendo DSiWare™ title, Frogger Returns. Based on the highly successful WiiWare™ version, Frogger Returns delivers the classic dodge-and-run gameplay fans remember and still love as a downloadable game on Nintendo’s portable handheld platform. In Frogger [...]

It can be tough getting around in the world of Monster Hunter. Hell, it can be a chore right from the start if you know nothing about the franchise! That’s how most people in Europe and the states are, since the series hasn’t really gotten a foothold outside of Japan. Thankfully, Monster [...]

EA Showcase interview with Executive Producer Casey Hudson.

#screengrab Four of the many Sesame Street Fighters to spring from the twisted mind of Deviant artist Gavacho13, as seen on Capcom Unity. More »

#ds You can have your Gran Turismos. The GT that I've been anticipating playing again since I first tried it last week is Ghost Trick. More »

Look -- the above TV spots for Super Mario Galaxy 2 are really slick and all, but now we've got one thing on our mind: pancakes. Now that we know there's a stack of flapjacks out there with its own gravitational pull, we just can't wait to dig in. Thankfully, we won't have to wait too long to satiate our need for edible planetary bodies.

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#battlenet StarCraft II players currently on the free multiplayer gravy train are in for a bit of good news/bad news. First the bad: StarCraft II's multiplayer beta is nearing its end and will shut down May 31. The good news? More »

Remedy has released what's presumably the final Alan Wake trailer, entitled "Building the Drama." It's dramatic: knowing glances, dark proclamations, brooding environments, floating review scores -- all here. And if this final tease doesn't convince you, allow us to: The game is really good.

Alan Wake will be available from North American retailers tomorrow, May 18.

#xbox360 A Swedish retailer priced Microsoft's codenamed Project Natal body-control sensor system at $200. But, today, Microsoft's Xbox 360 director of product management, Aaron Greenberg shot down any pricing reports, via Twitter: More »

#clips What happens when Sony's hilarious mouthpiece Kevin Butler goes head to head against Sony Computer Entertainment America's CEO and President Jack Tretton in ModNation Racers? "Tell me more, grown-up child actor." More »

Joystiq has received numerous reports from BioShock 2 players who have been unable to play the new multiplayer maps since purchasing the Metro Pack DLC last week. Elizabeth Tobey, senior manager of interactive marketing for 2K, has responded to this issue on the 2K forums. It's not a glitch, but a design choice: 2K has not yet created a DLC-only online multiplayer playlist.

Said Tobey, "We couldn't assume all players would purchase the new maps, so we made a design decision to unify the player base and make sure no one got split up." In order to play a new map in a public match, explained Tobey, all players in the match must own the DLC (obviously). If anyone doesn't have the DLC, the match automatically reverts to base maps. Tobey noted that the easiest way to play the new maps would be to set up a private match and indicated in a separate thread that the development team is considering the creation of a playlist exclusively for the Metro Pack maps.

In the same thread, Tobey addressed another complaint about the new DLC involving the included Rebirth option, which lets rank 50 players reset their level in exchange for a special mask item. The feature is apparently wiping players' leaderboard ranking and online stats. Tobey assured that the BioShock 2 team is "looking into" the Rebirth issue.

[Via Eurogamer]

Source - 2K Forums
Source - 2K Forums

A portion of a Dtoid review… …Dementium II is worth picking up for horror fans and FPS players alike, or just somebody who feels their DS library could use something a little darker.

Photos of new test hardware posted online.